My name is William Shea,
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I am a retired
seminary professor.
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Welcome to Faith Chapel.
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Our topic today is Christ
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in the heart of
the book of Daniel.
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Let us pray. Loving Father,
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we thank you for the messages
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which you gave to
your servants of old.
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We thank you for that light
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that it sheds on our pathway,
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and we ask for Your
Holy Spirit to lead us
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and guide us now in your path,
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in Jesus name, amen.
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The book of
Daniel divides in half.
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There is a historical
half that's Chapters 1 to 6
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and a prophetic half
that's Chapter 7 to 12.
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If we think about
the heart of the book
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we look at the beginning of
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the prophetic
section Chapter 7, 8 and 9.
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And that's what we're
going to be studying today.
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We're going to do
them in reverse order.
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We're gonna start
with Chapter 9 and back up
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to Chapter 8 and
then end with Chapter 7.
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And we'll do
that for the reasons
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which you will
find out later when
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we get further into our message.
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Chapter 9 opens
with Daniel the prophet
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on his knees with
the open word before him.
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He has the scroll
of Jeremiah and he is
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looking at that's
scroll and reading it,
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and seeing what we would
call Jeremiah Chapter 25,
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which promise that the
people of God would only
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be in Babylonian
captivity for seventy years,
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and he has been there
almost that long himself.
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So he is praying for
God to fulfill his word
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to send his people
back to their land,
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to rebuild the city,
to rebuild the country,
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and to rebuild the temple.
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God sends the
angle Gabriel to him
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and Gabriel
brings him a message,
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and the message
basically is yes,
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your city, your country,
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and your temple will be rebuild.
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But I am going to tell you more,
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I am going to
tell you what's going
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to happen five
centuries further down the line
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because I am going
to tell you what's going
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to happen when
the Messiah comes.
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And so we have a
messianic prophecy here
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and I want to look at
verse 24, Daniel 9:24.
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Seventy weeks are
determined upon your people,
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and your holy city, to
finish the transgression,
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to make an end of
sins, to make reconciliation
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for iniquity, and to bring
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in everlasting righteousness,
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and seal up the
vision and prophecy,
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and to anoint the most Holy.
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I want you to notice especially
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the middle pair of
these two statements
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to atone for
iniquity and to bring
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in everlasting righteousness.
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There was a problem in
the Old Testament system
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and the problem was
that the people kept sinning
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and so they would
take an animal sacrifice
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to the temple, and that
would atone for that sin
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but then they would sin again
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they take another
sacrifice and on and on,
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this round of ceremonies went.
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So they needed
something greater,
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they needed
something more definitive.
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And so they needed
what we've called V atone,
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with the capital
T and a capital A.
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That attornment came
when Jesus of Nazareth
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died on the Cross of Calvary
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that was the
great antitype of those
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Old Testament sacrifices.
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Those Old Testament
sacrifices look forward
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to the Cross of Jesus
and the death of Jesus
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as he made the great
final atonement for iniquity.
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And this happens
within this 490 period
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that we have of this prophecy,
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and that brings
in something else.
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There is a result
that flowed from the cross.
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And it says to bring in
everlasting righteousness
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you see the righteousness
that Jesus obtain on the
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cross by His death and
His atonement was not a
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temporary righteousness,
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like the Old
Testament sacrifices.
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It was permanently
available and still is
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available today
2000 years from the time
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that Jesus died.
It is still available
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for you and me today.
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This righteousness
and its effects will go
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on into eternity.
So here is the first
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two statements
about the work of Jesus
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in this prophecy.
The next statement
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comes in verse 25
which give us the date
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for the coming of the Messiah,
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and I won't work
through the mathematics
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of that for you.
But are you perhaps
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studied out the dates
that we've used commonly
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457 BC the time
of Artaxerxes decree
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in Chapter 7 of the
book of Ezra reaches
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to the beginning of the
Jesus ministry in 27 AD.
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And the word
Messiah of course means
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anointed one and
Jesus was anointed
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at the Jordan River
by the John the Baptist
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to begin his public ministry.
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So the prophecy the
third point about Jesus
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in this prophecy
is it gives the time
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when the Messiah would come.
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But then on a
sadder note it tells us
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what would happen to
Him because he goes on
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to say in verse 25
that the next event
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in the prophecy is
the Messiah would be
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cut off, cut off in
his idiom for to be killed
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and you noticed the
verb is in the passive,
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somebody else was
going to do this to him.
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And so we have the
fulfillment of this
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as we look at the Gospels.
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When we see the Roman troops
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crucifying Jesus hanging Him on
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the Cross of
Golgotha or Calvary.
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So we have the
date, we have the event
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the death of Jesus. He was not,
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the Messiah was not
to live out an ordinary
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normal lifetime, His
life would be cut shot by
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the crucifixion. And
so that was fulfilled
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in the experience
of Jesus of Nazareth.
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Then when we come to verse 27
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we have two more great acts.
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He will confirm the
covenant with many for one week.
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That's the 70th
week of this prophecy,
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or the last seven
years and is in the midst of
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that week that
Jesus was cut off.
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Jesus was the
messenger of the covenant,
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He came to confirm the covenant.
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He came to offer the covenant,
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and the greatest
benefits and blessings
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that it could
offer. And so if you look
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at the Sermon on the Mount,
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you can see how He says,
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you have heard that
it has been set of old.
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But now I say on to you,
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and He takes the commandments of
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the old covenant
and amplifies them
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and puts the microscope on them
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and shows that they are
not just external actions
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but there it go
down deep into the heart.
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And so Jesus is the
messenger of the covenant,
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who came to make
that offer the covenant.
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It's the last week,
the last seven years of
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the old covenant
soon to be replace by
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the new covenant
beginning when Jesus
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died on the
cross. Then its says,
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He will in the midst
of the week he shall cause
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the sacrifice and oblation
or grain offering to cease.
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There is a little
bit of a problem here,
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because when
Jesus died the sacrifice
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and offering in the temple
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went on for another 40 years.
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But now it was in
the different category.
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Now it was an
empty round of ceremonies
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because type of the
Old Testament system
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had met the antitype
in the death of Jesus,
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and the Old
Testament sacrifices were no
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longer necessary.
And God showed that
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if you remember by
rending the veil in the temple.
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Well we have six
great facts here about
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the Messiahship
of Jesus of Nazareth.
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It tells us that He
would make the great atonement
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for sin that would produce
everlasting righteousness
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that's available for us today.
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It tells us when He would come,
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it tells us that He would die.
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And it tells us
what would happen
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to the sacrificial
system and that He would make
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the final offer of the
Old Testament covenant.
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If we summarize all
this and put it into
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one word picture, we
can say this is the picture
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in Daniel 9 of
Christ as sacrifice.
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Now lets backup
and go to Chapter 8.
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In Chapter 8 we
have, we start of with two
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animal symbols; first
there is the Persia ram,
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and this ram is identified
in verse 20 as Medo-Persia.
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And this is
followed by the Greek goat
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and that's identified
as Greece in verse 21.
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And so the Persian
ram starts out doing
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its conquest, and
then the Greek goat does
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its conquest, and
then there is big clash
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between the two and
the Greek goat wins.
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And the Greek goat
has his first great horn,
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and that first
great horn of course,
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we know so well is Alexander.
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But Alexander did
not live out a full life,
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he too died at a very
young age in his thirties.
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And so his kingdom,
his empire was split up
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into four pieces,
and those four pieces
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were divided among
the generals of Alexander,
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one general took Greece,
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one general took Asia Minor,
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one general took
Syria and Babylon,
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and one general took Egypt.
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And then there is the
fifth horn as the symbol,
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horn symbol is
used that comes onto
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the scene of
action and basically
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it picks off one
by one, and picks off
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all these pieces
of the Greek empire.
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And Rome has taken
the Eastern Mediterranean
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basin and even it
mentions the glorious land.
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The Roman general Pompey
arrived in Judea in 60 BC.
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And he conquered the
city after brief resistance,
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and he merged in to the temple.
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He wanted to see what
the God of Israel look like,
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what the statue,
what the image look like.
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The priest
protested please don't go
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in there you will
contaminate our temple,
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but he march in
anyway and found to his shock
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and surprise an empty room.
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You may remember
the Ark of the Covenant
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had been hidden at the
time of Nebuchadnezzar's
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conquest six centuries earlier,
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and it was not found or replaced
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or put in the second temple.
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And so Rome has
taken possession of Judea
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and Jerusalem and
all of the Near East.
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Now this phase
of Rome then begins
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and attack in a
different direction,
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it begins an attack on heaven.
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And there we have the prince of
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the host in
heaven, and the prince of
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the host in heaven
is another symbolic
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representation of Jesus Christ.
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He is the leader of the
host of the people of God.
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And he previously
in his earthly ministry
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now has gone on
through the ascension
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to take His heavenly ministry.
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And it says in Chapter 8 here
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that the
sanctuary belongs to Him
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and the daily or continual
ministry belongs to Him.
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So it's a picture of a
priestly ministry in heaven
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and that's what, we have today.
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We have heavenly
sanctuary working on our behalf,
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there Jesus and His
Father minister on our behalf,
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they send the angles,
they send the Holy Spirit
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pleading intersession
answering our prayers.
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This is the daily
ministry that goes on
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for the redemption of
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the human race
in the world today.
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But this earthly
power attempt to subvert
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or direct people's
attention away from
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the heavenly
sanctuary to earthly powers,
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earthly
experience, and so there is
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this conflict
and, how do you resolve
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this conflict? You resolve
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this conflict by judgment,
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and that's what comes
at the end of the prophetic
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time period that's
mentioned here 2300
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evening, mornings
which is mentioned
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in verse 14 Chapter
8. And at the end of
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the long time period which using
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the rule of the day
for year in prophecy bring
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us to 1844 and then begins a
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heavenly judgment to
demonstrate the truth
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or the plan of God salvation,
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and the falsehood
of human inventions
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in contrast to it. Now if we ask
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what kind of picture
do we have of Jesus here,
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is a picture of Jesus as priest.
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He is the one to whom
the sanctuary belongs,
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He is the one to whom
the ministry is given,
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and He is the one
who carries out that
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ministry in that
heavenly sanctuary.
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So the second
picture we have here is
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of Jesus as
priest. Let's keep these
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pictures in mind,
Jesus' sacrifice in Daniel 9,
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Jesus as priest in Daniel 8.
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Now let's go back to Daniel 7.
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Daniel 7 has this
picture of these four symbols
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of these four
animals. And these four animals
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give us
progressively a lion, a bear,
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a leopard and nondescript beast.
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And as we look at the
fulfillment in history
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we start off with
Daniel's own time,
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so the lion is
Babylon and in deed on
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the walls of
Babylon the great entryway
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we have depictions of lions,
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and we have
depictions of lions on
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the walls of the
palace as the exequatur
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has found them in enamel colored
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and enamel bricks,
and these lions are 6 feet
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about 6 feet long
from nose to tail.
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So we have beautiful
depictions of the lion
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of Babylon in
Babylonian art itself.
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Now the Babylonians had
little different conception.
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They thought of
their God writing on
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the back of this lion
so they it was not just
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that they loved animals,
it was to show the truth
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and power and
strength of the God of Babylon.
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But the God of the
Bible was greater than
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the God of Babylon as
Daniel revealed to them.
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And so Daniel now
reveals that the lion of Babylon
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and after this will
come another kingdom
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he tells king
Nebuchadnezzar inferior to you,
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the Persians came
and conquer Babylon
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and that we find
right in Chapter 5
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of the book of Daniel.
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And so we have
the first transition
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from these first
two symbolic beast
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from the lion of
Babylon to the bear
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of Medo-Persia right
in the book of Daniel
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itself in
Chapter 5 and Chapter 6
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the book starts out
Daniel's experience starts
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out under the
new Babylonian king,
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and then he is
taking to the court room of
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king Darius the
Mede. Who was the sub
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governor of Babylon
under Cyrus of Persia.
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Then comes the Greek leopard,
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it's the same
Greek king Alexander
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that we read about in Chapter 8
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and Alexander of
course now is represented,
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or his kingdom is
represented by the leopard
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that has four
heads, four horns on
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the great Greek
goat in Chapter 8,
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four heads on the
leopard in Chapter 7,
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its the same Greek kingdom.
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And then following
that comes this dreadful
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and terrible beast
that represents Rome,
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its called the nondescript beast
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because it doesn't connected
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with the specific
animal, it has parts of various
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animals for instances it
mentions his teeth of iron
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and you may remember
then in Daniel Chapter 2
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the legs of iron
represented Rome,
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the might and power
the crushing power of Rome
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as it conquered
the Mediterranean world
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and world's
farther I feel on that
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all the way through
Gall or France onto England.
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And so Rome is now
in the picture here
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just as it was in Chapter 8.
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But Rome does not
last forever either
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and so there is
ten horns that come up
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spring up on the
head of this fourth beast
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representing the
divisions of Rome,
00:16:35.11\00:16:37.14
and this came about
through the barbarian
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conquest of Rome in
the 5th and 6th century.
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And so Rome felt
to the Herali in 476
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and the Ostrogoth dominated
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the Italian
peninsula for century or so.
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And so Rome as
an empire was gone,
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and that's represented
in this vision by the horns
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and its represented in
Daniel 2 the great image
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by the iron mixed with clay.
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And then we have
the religious face of
00:17:07.09\00:17:10.04
this beast
represented by the little horn
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who speak words
against the most high
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and who persecutes
and so on and so forth.
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Now we have an answer from God
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and the answer
from God is that the,
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the answer from God is
set in the heavenly court.
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And that brings
us to our key text
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which I think we can
display on the screen
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Daniel 7, verses 13 and 14.
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I saw in the night
visions, and, behold,
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one like the Son of man came
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with the clouds of heaven,
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and came to the Ancient of days,
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and they brought
him near before him.
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And there was
given to him dominion,
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and glory, and a
kingdom, that all people,
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nations, and
languages, should serve him:
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his dominion is an
everlasting dominion,
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which shall not pass
away, and his kingdom
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that which shall
not be destroyed.
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We have a scene here
set in the heavenly court
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back in verses 9 and
10 we have the ancient of
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days coming and taking his seat
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the angelic host
gathers around him
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the judgment are set,
and the books are open.
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That's the
beginning scene of the
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judgment in heaven
which take place after
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these four kingdoms
have risen and fallen,
00:18:26.80\00:18:29.26
and after the
experience of the little horn.
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Then the end of
this judgment scene
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in portrait in
which the Son of man,
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and we know from the
Gospels as Jesus Christ
00:18:39.72\00:18:42.44
comes to the ancient
of days God the Father,
00:18:42.45\00:18:45.15
and there he
received the kingdom.
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Now if I give you
the kingdom that makes
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you the king. If God the
Father gives Jesus Christ
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the Son the kingdom
that makes Jesus the king,
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so the picture we have
here is of Jesus as the king.
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Now one way to
study the Bible is to look
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for keywords and a
keyword in Daniel Chapter 7
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is the word dominion, dominion.
00:19:07.61\00:19:10.87
And the question
is who has dominion?
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You see Babylon
had dominion for while,
00:19:14.14\00:19:16.74
but then Babylon
lost it and pass it along
00:19:16.75\00:19:19.16
to the Persians,
and the Persian had
00:19:19.17\00:19:21.28
dominion for a
while, but they lost
00:19:21.29\00:19:23.12
and passed it onto the Greeks,
00:19:23.13\00:19:24.59
and the Greek had
dominion for while,
00:19:24.60\00:19:27.06
and then they passed
it along to the Romans,
00:19:27.07\00:19:29.02
and they had dominion
for while but it wasn't
00:19:29.03\00:19:30.85
permanent for them either.
00:19:30.86\00:19:32.21
And so there is this
constants human state
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of affairs where
we're under different rulers
00:19:35.87\00:19:38.67
or different
kingdoms and usually
00:19:38.68\00:19:41.29
or commonly the next
one is worst than the first.
00:19:41.30\00:19:44.32
And the question is
how long is this going
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to go on, how long are
we going to endure this?
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And the answer is
God has an answer for us,
00:19:49.38\00:19:52.45
set in the scene
in the heavenly court
00:19:52.46\00:19:55.07
because there at the
end of this judgment scene
00:19:55.08\00:19:58.34
he decrease that
the Son of man will be
00:19:58.35\00:20:01.64
the great
eternal permanent ruler,
00:20:01.65\00:20:04.59
and his dominion is
not going to be like
00:20:04.60\00:20:06.93
the dominion of
Babylon, or Greeks,
00:20:06.94\00:20:08.52
or Medo-Persia,
His kingdom is going
00:20:08.53\00:20:11.57
to go on forever
and ever, and ever.
00:20:11.58\00:20:14.04
And we have the
opportunity to enter
00:20:14.05\00:20:16.86
into the kingdom
because we're right
00:20:16.87\00:20:18.42
in this Chapter,
we're in verse 27.
00:20:18.43\00:20:20.80
The saints of the
Most High will receive
00:20:20.81\00:20:22.81
the kingdom. But
before we get there,
00:20:22.82\00:20:25.47
let's, let's notice
a little bit more about
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Christ as king. When He comes
00:20:29.86\00:20:33.08
to the ancient of days
and He receives the kingdom,
00:20:33.09\00:20:36.24
He then comes to take
possession of His kingdom,
00:20:40.04\00:20:42.74
that is not shown
to us in this prophecy.
00:20:42.75\00:20:45.50
Our spiritual four
bears and the Millerite
00:20:45.51\00:20:48.56
movement believe
this was the depiction
00:20:48.57\00:20:50.87
of the second coming of Christ
00:20:50.88\00:20:52.58
that is not correct.
This is not a depiction of
00:20:52.59\00:20:55.45
the second coming of Christ.
00:20:55.46\00:20:56.90
The second coming
of Christ takes place
00:20:56.91\00:20:59.28
subsequent to this.
This is the scene of a
00:20:59.29\00:21:02.74
transition which
take place in heaven,
00:21:02.75\00:21:04.69
and then when Jesus
receives the kingdom,
00:21:04.70\00:21:07.97
He comes to earth in
the clouds as described
00:21:07.98\00:21:11.26
in Revelation 1 and
Mathew 24 and so forth.
00:21:11.27\00:21:15.75
And then He takes
possession of the kingdom,
00:21:15.76\00:21:18.30
the physical
possession of the kingdom.
00:21:18.31\00:21:20.15
He is given the
titled kingdom in heaven
00:21:20.16\00:21:22.75
and then he is given
possession of the kingdom
00:21:22.76\00:21:25.43
when he comes for His
saints from all the ages
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and at the resurrection.
00:21:28.40\00:21:30.24
Now we have before
us these three pictures
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word pictures of
Jesus, and let's summarize
00:21:36.35\00:21:40.38
Daniel 9 is a picture
of Christ to sacrifice.
00:21:40.39\00:21:44.86
Daniel 8 is a
picture of Jesus as priest,
00:21:44.87\00:21:49.02
Daniel 7 is a
picture of Jesus as king.
00:21:49.71\00:21:53.56
But if you have
followed the sequence carefully
00:21:53.57\00:21:56.58
you may notice there
is a little problem here
00:21:56.59\00:21:59.79
and the little
problem is they seem to be in
00:21:59.80\00:22:02.97
reverse order
from the way we think,
00:22:02.98\00:22:04.87
and that's true.
Modern European philosophical
00:22:04.88\00:22:10.54
thinking reasoning
reasons from cost to affect.
00:22:10.55\00:22:13.57
We collect the
data, we make a theory,
00:22:13.58\00:22:16.39
we test the theory
and then it becomes
00:22:16.40\00:22:19.02
the conclusion. Now the ancients
00:22:19.03\00:22:21.40
could do that too, we have then
00:22:21.41\00:22:22.71
in the book of
Daniel where they follow
00:22:22.72\00:22:24.07
this chronological
order. but they can also do
00:22:24.08\00:22:26.91
it in reverse order
for example in Daniel 9
00:22:26.92\00:22:30.61
and we look at the
summary verse is in verse 24
00:22:30.62\00:22:33.95
and then the detail
verses follow, verses 25 to 27.
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Let me give you a
simple brief illustration
00:22:38.32\00:22:40.46
of this on the words of Jesus.
00:22:40.47\00:22:42.21
Jesus said where
your treasure is,
00:22:42.22\00:22:46.82
there your heart be
also, is that correct?
00:22:46.83\00:22:50.84
Yes, yes correct,
but that's not the way
00:22:50.85\00:22:53.67
we would put it,
because we would say
00:22:53.68\00:22:56.92
where your heart
is, where your motive is
00:22:56.93\00:22:59.70
that's where you
would put your treasure,
00:22:59.71\00:23:02.22
that's reasoning
from cost to affect.
00:23:02.23\00:23:04.56
The Biblical
statement of Jesus reasons
00:23:04.57\00:23:06.90
from affect where you
have put your treasure
00:23:06.91\00:23:09.73
back to the cause
where your heart is,
00:23:09.74\00:23:12.28
and that's what
Daniel does here.
00:23:12.29\00:23:14.25
The first picture of
Jesus is a Jesus as king
00:23:15.25\00:23:18.29
and in that
picture we are supposed
00:23:19.27\00:23:22.55
to ask a question who is this,
00:23:22.56\00:23:25.31
where did He come
from and how did He get
00:23:25.32\00:23:27.45
to be king? That
takes us back to Chapter 8
00:23:27.46\00:23:31.31
because the
subjects of the kingdom are
00:23:31.32\00:23:34.65
the ones for whom He
is minister as priest.
00:23:34.66\00:23:38.08
Oh wait a minute, how
did He get to be priest.
00:23:38.09\00:23:40.73
He got to be priest
because He had a sacrifice.
00:23:40.74\00:23:44.64
Book of Hebrew
says every priest has
00:23:44.65\00:23:47.79
to have a sacrifice to offer.
00:23:47.80\00:23:50.19
Jesus offered the
sacrifice of Himself,
00:23:50.20\00:23:53.48
so we start out
with the picture of Jesus
00:23:53.49\00:23:55.65
as king the result
because He was the priest
00:23:55.66\00:23:59.93
who ministered for His subjects,
00:23:59.94\00:24:01.71
and that lead us
back to the original cause
00:24:01.72\00:24:04.73
in the sacrifice
that He gave of Himself.
00:24:04.74\00:24:07.50
So let summarize now,
three pictures of Jesus,
00:24:07.51\00:24:11.79
Jesus as
sacrifice, Jesus as priest,
00:24:11.80\00:24:15.17
and Jesus as
king. Three works of
00:24:15.18\00:24:18.38
the plan of
salvation with the atonement
00:24:18.39\00:24:22.26
of the sacrifice
we get justification,
00:24:22.27\00:24:25.83
we are declared
just because what Jesus
00:24:26.63\00:24:29.37
has done for us.
His ministry for us
00:24:29.38\00:24:32.59
in heaven now give
us all the benefits
00:24:32.60\00:24:34.89
that heaven can send
to bring our life into
00:24:34.90\00:24:41.64
obedience to
Christ, and that we call
00:24:41.65\00:24:45.00
sanctification, the
picture of Jesus in heaven
00:24:45.01\00:24:48.99
now as He works
for our sanctification
00:24:49.00\00:24:52.14
having saved us, He purifies us
00:24:52.15\00:24:54.73
and cleanses us,
and that make us ready
00:24:54.74\00:24:58.38
for the kingdom to come.
00:24:58.39\00:24:59.63
And the picture in
Chapter 7 is glorification,
00:24:59.64\00:25:03.94
three pictures of
Jesus, three works of Jesus,
00:25:03.95\00:25:08.60
justification,
sanctification, glorification.
00:25:08.61\00:25:12.96
Three time
prophecies on different scales,
00:25:13.62\00:25:17.76
Daniel 9 five
centuries 490 day years takes us
00:25:17.77\00:25:23.06
to the first century
AD, Daniel 8 2300 days
00:25:23.07\00:25:27.49
that takes us to 1844
that's the intermediate
00:25:27.50\00:25:30.88
length prophecy to the
beginning of the judgment,
00:25:30.89\00:25:33.55
but Daniel 7 takes
us all the way into
00:25:33.56\00:25:36.07
the kingdom starts
at Babylon finishes
00:25:36.08\00:25:38.94
in the kingdom,
that's the longest prophecy.
00:25:38.95\00:25:41.50
Three pictures of
Jesus, three works of Jesus,
00:25:41.51\00:25:45.45
three time
prophecies on a short, medium
00:25:45.46\00:25:49.35
and long length
scale, and three time tenses
00:25:49.36\00:25:53.64
are involved in this
from our point of view today.
00:25:53.65\00:25:56.25
We look back to the cross,
00:25:56.26\00:25:58.29
we look up to heaven today,
00:25:58.30\00:26:00.42
and we look forward to
the kingdom of God to come.
00:26:00.43\00:26:03.54
Now, this gives
us a beautiful view
00:26:06.22\00:26:10.71
the plan of
salvation as given to us
00:26:10.72\00:26:13.41
in the pictures of Jesus
00:26:13.42\00:26:15.19
in each of these three Chapters
00:26:15.20\00:26:17.00
in the heart of
the book of Daniel.
00:26:17.01\00:26:18.65
But I want to tell
you that this is not just
00:26:19.63\00:26:21.81
an academic
exercise, not just something
00:26:21.82\00:26:24.39
you would teach
in a seminary class,
00:26:24.40\00:26:26.37
this is
personal, this is for you,
00:26:26.38\00:26:30.14
this is for Messiah,
because as I look back
00:26:30.15\00:26:33.38
to the cross, I see
Jesus as my sacrifice,
00:26:33.39\00:26:37.95
as my personal savior.
00:26:37.96\00:26:39.94
As I look up to
him to heaven today,
00:26:39.95\00:26:42.60
I see him as the
one who sends His angles
00:26:42.61\00:26:45.90
on the Holy Spirit
to lead me on the road
00:26:45.91\00:26:48.70
to heaven to
sanctify and purify my life
00:26:48.71\00:26:51.86
and your life. And
then we look forward
00:26:51.87\00:26:55.96
to the great
final day represented by
00:26:55.97\00:26:59.32
the second coming of
Jesus that follows after
00:26:59.33\00:27:03.31
the great heavenly court scene
00:27:03.32\00:27:05.11
when He will he
come to claim His own
00:27:05.12\00:27:07.36
and the saints of
the most high in which
00:27:07.37\00:27:09.74
you have an
opportunity of being a member.
00:27:09.75\00:27:12.94
May God bless you that
you take the opportunity
00:27:12.95\00:27:17.66
to make Jesus your
personal Lord and savior,
00:27:17.67\00:27:20.92
that you accept that
sacrifice on the cross
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as sacrifice for
you and the forgiveness
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that it brings,
accept the Holy Spirit
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in your heart and wait
for the soon coming day
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when His kingdom will
come and Jesus will ride
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forth on the clouds of heaven
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to come for his
own, and you can be in
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that crowed
amongst that great group of
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the saints of the most high,
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who will enter
victoriously into the kingdom.
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God bless you with your faith
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in that plan of salvation.
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